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valiantly

adv

Etymology

From valiant + -ly.

  1. derived from *h₂welh₁-✻ — “powerful, strong; to rule”
  2. derived from valeō — “to have value; to be worth; to be strong; to have influence or power”
  3. derived from vailant
  4. derived from vaillaunt
  5. inherited from vailaunt — “having or showing courage or valour, valiant; characterized by valour; powerful, strong; person of valour or strength; excellent, worthy; beneficial, useful; valuable; legally valid, binding”
  6. formed as valiantly — “valiant + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a valiant manner

    In a valiant manner; showing bravery.

    • I valiantly resolve not to go to bed at all, but to walk up and down the pier till morning.
    • We may think of the young people who valiantly stood for the cause of human rights and resisted their infringement, in spite of the violent crackdown by the Chinese regime at T’ien-an-men Square in June 1989.

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